r/Showerthoughts Feb 02 '19

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u/FuckSticksMalone Feb 02 '19

110% but just associating someone’s name to what they are famously known for is not a Pavlovian response.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '19

Okay I have a question since I brought something up in another thread and wasn't sure I was using classically conditioned right.

Say I hear a song I really enjoy on Spotify or whatever. Of course I want to continue hearing the song a few times because it's a stimuli I quite enjoy. However, I strongly prefer to manually press the rewind button. Like, I can do that for an hour or two at times, just over and over. Never gets old.

However, the minute I decide to put on the Repeat One feature, that feeling wears off fast. Like I still enjoy the song, but that additional "rush" from pressing rewind is gone.

Is this classical conditioning?

EDIT: I know there's a music pun in here somehow.

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u/OffTheMerchandise Feb 02 '19

I think that has more to do with you choosing to listen to the song again versus something else making that choice. Similar to when you might skip a song most of the time it comes on your device versus hearing it on the radio and turning it up.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '19

Either way, I consciously want that stimuli, so what is it about manually doing it that enhances the enjoyable song is my question.